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APPEALED Definition & Legal Meaning

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In a sense not strictly technical, this word may be used to signify the exercise by a party of the right to remove a litigation from one forum to another; as where he removes a suit involving the title to real estate from a justice’s court to the common pleas. Lawrence v. Souther, 8 Mete. (Mass.) 1G0.

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